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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Thorofare Swamp |
rises in E Pitt County and flows SE into Clayroot Swamp. |
| Thoroughfare |
portion of Pee Dee River flowing S of Youngs Island, N Anson County. |
| Thoroughfare Branch |
rises in S Lee County and flows NE into Juniper Creek. |
| Thoroughfare Island |
a small island in North River, W Currituck County. North of the island, the river is sometimes known as Indian-town Creek. |
| Thoroughfare Swamp |
rises in SW Wayne County and flows NE and N into Neuse River. Formerly known as Falling Creek, and so designated on the Price map, 1808, and by Dr. Elisha Mitchell in his 1827 journal. |
| Thorpe Reservoir |
See Lake Thorpe. |
| Thrash Branch |
rises in central Transylvania County and flows SW into French Broad River. |
| Thrash Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County on Old Mattie Ridge and flows SE and SW into Valley River. See also Wood Lake. |
| Three Forks |
See Busick. |
| Three Forks Creek |
formed in SE Yancey County by the junction of Left Prong and Right Prong and flows NW into South Toe River. |
